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From: Adam Back <adam@cypherspace.org>
To: Thomas Zander <thomas@thomaszander.se>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] trust
Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2015 12:54:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALqxMTELM5Q+q_g0Tz-tR8sU0bqFx+Piops1FX+xnn-Lk7oM2Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150808085451.4689995.38052.4163@thomaszander.se>

On 8 August 2015 at 09:54, Thomas Zander <thomas@thomaszander.se> wrote:
> I didn't say off-chain, and gave an example of on-chain usecase with trusted middleman.

That's basically the definition of off-chain.  When we say MtGox or
coinbase etc are off-chain transactions, that is because a middle man
has the private keys to the coins and gave you an IOU of some kind.

Adam


  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-08-08 11:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-08  6:10 [bitcoin-dev] trust Thomas Zander
2015-08-08  8:39 ` Adam Back
2015-08-08  8:54   ` Thomas Zander
2015-08-08  9:24     ` Benjamin
2015-08-08 11:08       ` s7r
2015-08-08 12:01         ` Benjamin
2015-08-11  4:17           ` Joseph Poon
2015-08-08 11:59       ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-08-08 11:54     ` Adam Back [this message]
2015-08-08 12:37       ` Thomas Zander
2015-08-10 20:17         ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-10 20:43           ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-08-10 21:43           ` Thomas Zander
2015-08-08  9:05 ` Venzen Khaosan
2015-08-10 21:45 ` Gregory Maxwell

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